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Sufjan Stevens coming to Seattle Oct. 15

Okay, I think I am the one music critic in America who doesn’t like Sufjan Stevens all that much. I can understand why people like him and I think he has a good gimmick going with his one CD for every state thing (I can’t wait until he does such exotic locales as North Dakota or Delaware), but I am not too impressed.

Although Sufjan Stevens won me over with his live set (seen here during Sasquatch!) I am still not a fan … yet. Photo by Steven Friederich

Well, I wasn’t that impressed with him until I saw him at Sasquatch! with his uber-patriotic red white and blue band. It was really, really cool and much more exciting and engaging that I thought it was going to be. Although I am still not a fan of his, I did enjoy his live set and I am interested to see if he can pull of such a stage show when he performs at the Paramount Oct. 15. It’s the last stop on his U.S. tour and he is playing new material so maybe he will win me over with his newer stuff.